Re: [gentoo-dev] Themes for Webapplication

2005-11-05 Thread Rene Zbinden
I am writing an ebuild for pmwiki. Its not in the portage tree yet. I think I will put the themes in /usr/share/pmwiki/Skins Hope that is OK. Stuart Herbert wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 07:41 +0100, Rene Zbinden wrote: I am writing an eubild for an webapplication (wiki) and there are a

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Motivation == There are currently several ways of getting news out to our users, none of them particularly effective: This assumes the following ways are really ineffective, something which you don't prove or give any reason for. Hence it's eligable for

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread kloeri
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:28:33AM +0100, Grobian wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Motivation == There are currently several ways of getting news out to our users, none of them particularly effective: This assumes the following ways are really ineffective, something which you

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
Jan Kundrát wrote: On Saturday 05 of November 2005 11:28 Grobian wrote: Remember that it is easy to say here that users don't read what's on their consoles as well, as in post emerge messages etc. So make sure you deal with it upfront, why you think now it *will* work. Emerge messages are

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must not have read the [#forums-whining]_ reference as that makes it quite clear that existing methods isn't adequate. Even if you think the apache maintainers made lots of mistakes you can't really fault us for not trying to get the news of config changes out to all

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Lisa Seelye
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:58 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Feedback from people who have something useful to say would be very much welcomed, assuming of course that they've read the GLEP. It is written in the GLEP (Requirements): No user monitoring required It has already been

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Harring
Additional issue/question... On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:58:14AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 6. Portage filters the news item and, if it is relevant, installs it in a special location to be read by a news item reader. Messages are also displayed to inform the user that news is

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread kloeri
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:29:28PM +0100, Grobian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must not have read the [#forums-whining]_ reference as that makes it quite clear that existing methods isn't adequate. Even if you think the apache maintainers made lots of mistakes you can't really fault us

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Saturday 05 of November 2005 12:34 Lisa Seelye wrote: The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a relatively large amount of data

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

2005-11-05 Thread Michiel de Bruijne
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:08, Jason Stubbs wrote: Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for package-specific news? From a user/sys.admin point of view let me give you an example; I maintain quite a lot Gentoo-systems. For me it's impossible to read _every_ changelog for minor release

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we were only aiming at a certain group of people there would be no need to change anything. The apache announcements reached lots of users but still left a large chunk of users in the dark. Moving the news to -announce or some RSS feed wouldn't change anything as the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
A more reliable way of getting news of critical updates out to users is required to avoid repeats of the various recent upgrade debacles. Examples of the recent upgrade debacles aren't needed, but you should at least state some of the outcomes that occurred, whether it be unscheduled

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Bryan �stergaard
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:58:00PM +0100, Grobian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I disagree. A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN. For me it works quite well if I see a message with a warning on something. I can quickly find it back if I am in need for it. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:18:14PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: ``Display-If-Installed:`` ?? ?? A dependency atom or simple package name (for example, ?? ?? ``dev-lang/php-5_alpha`` or ``net-www/apache``). If the user has the ?? ?? package specified installed, the news item should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 05 November 2005 22:24, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:18:14PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: ``Display-If-Installed:``     A dependency atom or simple package name (for example,     ``dev-lang/php-5_alpha`` or ``net-www/apache``). If the user has the    

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
Bryan ��� wrote: Even if you don't realise that this will be a big help for many users or you just don't think those users deserver any help (not sure which one it is tbh) - you might at least consider the fact that only having to push news about major / critical

[gentoo-dev] useful profiles.desc

2005-11-05 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Continuing a subject I've brought up several times in the past... Are we any closer to having a profiles.desc that lists all valid profiles? IIRC the current stable portage should be ok with it. Are there any other issues preventing this from

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:28:33 +0100 Grobian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Preemptive | Users should be told of changes *before* they break the user's | system, after the damage has already been done. | | style suggestion for unambigous interpretation: | perhaps a because if applied afterwards

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:24:51 -0600 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Drop the lightweight bit and merge it into multiple delivery. You're | after lightweight _default_, which is fine, but the phrasing is a bit | screwed. Hrm, I don't see those as contradictory. There's a requirement that

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:34:23 + Lisa Seelye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which | requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant | news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a | relatively

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:28:33 +0100 Grobian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Preemptive | Users should be told of changes *before* they break the user's | system, after the damage has already been done. |

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:58:40 + (UTC) Ferris McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I can't resist. I think you mean 'not after system,': | ...*before* they break the user's system, not after Uh oh, I think I finally cracked. Now I'm crazzyyy!!! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 17:53 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:43:12 -0600 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Your example readers delete from the news directory, yet I'd expect | that's not going to be desirable for all setups- nor is leaving the | news item in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | News Item File Format | ... | The news item will be named in the form | ``-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt`` | ... | News Item Headers | ... | Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-`` format

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:45:35PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | News items may be signed using GPG. If this is done, a detached | signature should be used. | | I'd argue for must be, personally. A bogus news item claiming to be | from portage devs, telling users to change their SYNC

Re: [gentoo-dev] useful profiles.desc

2005-11-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:34:55PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 09:23 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Continuing a subject I've brought up several times in the past... Are we any closer to having a profiles.desc that lists all valid profiles? IIRC the current stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: News Item File Format ... The news item will be named in the form ``-mm-dd-item-name.en.txt`` ... News Item Headers ... Date of posting, in

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Grobian
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Apart from that this point seems to repeat much of the previous one, | it introduces a new unfounded claim (users do read, but now too late) Read the linked forums thread and all will become clear. the forums thread advocates against the new unfounded claim, IMHO. |

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:24:14 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Consistency with GLEPs. | | Sorry, that doesn't mean anything: | could you offer something which makes more sense ? GLEP 1 mandates date headers in that format. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:32:19 +0100 Grobian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I was referring to the item-name. It is defined to allow -, whild | the fields are also separated with -. Hence I suggested to allow | _ in the item-name instead of - to avoid (possible) problems when | parsing the field. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:29:31 -0600 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Signing elsewhere isn't mandatory yet. | | Deal with it ;) In order to deal with it, I'd also have to come up with a solution to distributing keys for Gentoo developers. That's a separate issue which must be addressed

[gentoo-dev] Becoming Mirror

2005-11-05 Thread Armindo Silva
Hi! I am member of LUG, and we are interested in becoming a Gentoo Mirror! We are wanting to know info about system requirements and configuration. Cumps Armindo Silva -- -- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Sir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming Mirror

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Paskowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Armindo Silva wrote: Hi! I am member of LUG, and we are interested in becoming a Gentoo Mirror! We are wanting to know info about system requirements and configuration. Cumps Armindo Silva -- The following docs are available: Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming Mirror

2005-11-05 Thread Dan Meltzer
this can be found in the docs at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ On 11/5/05, Armindo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am member of LUG, and we are interested in becoming a Gentoo Mirror! We are wanting to know info about system requirements and configuration. Cumps Armindo Silva --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming Mirror

2005-11-05 Thread Armindo Silva
Hi! You're right!! Just found it! I never entered on Other Documentation Section.. Thanx!! On 11/6/05, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this can be found in the docs at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ On 11/5/05, Armindo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am member of LUG, and we are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming Mirror

2005-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Forman
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:37 -0500, Robert Paskowitz wrote: The following docs are available: Gentoo Linux rsync Mirrors Policy -- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml Gentoo Linux Source Mirrors Policy -- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml those should cover most

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 Critical News Reporting Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 06 November 2005 02:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:18:14 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The following headers are used for filtering. If none of these | headers are specified, the news item is displayed for all users. | Otherwise, the news item is

Re: [gentoo-dev] useful profiles.desc

2005-11-05 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 09:23 -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Continuing a subject I've brought up several times in the past... Are we any closer to having a profiles.desc that lists all valid profiles? IIRC the current stable